CERN scientists excruciatingly close to discovering Higgs bosonGeneva — Physicists investigating the make-up of the universe are closing in on the Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to have been key to turning debris from the Big Bang into stars, planets and finally life, scientists said on Tuesday.06/13/2012 - 12:34 am | View Link

Scientists closing in on elusive Higgs boson 'God particle'WASHINGTON -- More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet. In the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is key to understanding why ...03/7/2012 - 6:11 am | View Link

Photo: Scientists closing in on the evasive Higgs boson particleRecent studies by two teams of U.S. physicists who are also on the hunt for the elusive Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as ... giving further credence to the claim that scientists are rapidly closing in on the tiny subatomic speck of matter.03/6/2012 - 11:00 pm | View Link

Scientists say closing in on elusive Higgs bosonPhysicists investigating the make-up of the universe said on Wednesday they were closing in on the long-sought but elusive Higgs boson they believe was key to turning debris from the Big Bang into stars, planets and finally life. The researchers spoke ...03/6/2012 - 11:00 am | View Link

Scientists close in on elusive 'God particle'AFTER a 50-year hunt, scientists at the world's largest atom-smasher are closing in on their prey - an elusive subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. At a seminar in Geneva tonight, researchers are expected to release data that will provide the first ...12/12/2011 - 6:34 am | View Link

Peter HiggsPeter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is ...03/1/2015 - 5:28 pm | View Website

Higgs bosonThe Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. Its main relevance is that it allows scientists to explore the ...03/1/2015 - 12:49 pm | View Website

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It's particle-hunting season! Scientists launch Higgs ...New York University scientists and their colleagues have launched the Higgs Hunters project, which will allow members of the general public to study images recorded ...11/26/2014 - 10:59 am | View Website

Scientists raise doubts over discovery of elusive God particleScientists, using the Large Hadron Collider, found what they believe could be the elusive Higgs boson particle, but now other researchers are casting doubt on their find.11/10/2014 - 9:20 pm | View Website

Russia's Perm-36 museum issued a statement Monday that it is "ceasing its activities and beginning the process of self-liquidation" following months of government pressure for the museum to close.
Perm-36 is the only Russian museum built on the site of a former gulag camp, The Moscow Times reports. The museum commemorates victims of Soviet labor camps.
The Times notes that the museum's closing comes as a recent Levada Center poll found that more than half of Russians have positive views of Josef Stalin.

After an arduous two-month selection process that included a request to move the case out of Boston, a 12-member jury was seated Tuesday in the trial of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The 21-year-old Tsarnaev faces 30 charges and a potential death sentence for allegedly detonating two bombs during the 2013 marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress about Iran's nuclear ambitions, calling it a condescending affront to U. S. intelligence.
"That is why, as one who values the U. S.–Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation," Pelosi said in a statement.
Pelosi had been highly critical of House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) invite to Netanyahu, though she did not join the large group of Democratic lawmakers who boycotted the address.